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Post by coachbdud on Jun 3, 2015 21:16:17 GMT -6
I'm sure Control your tempo often gets brought up in bedrooms as well as clinics
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 2, 2015 11:30:33 GMT -6
Haven't had a problem personally
Had a coach at my old school have to wait months for his
Weird, his fingerprint was so close to some ex con that they had to retest it over and over Rescan it Have humans and computer scan it
Weird
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Post by coachbdud on May 4, 2015 9:25:42 GMT -6
Weightroom renovation or put toward building a pole-barn to use as a training facility. Pole barn? I'm picturing a strip club located inside of a barn
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Post by coachbdud on May 2, 2015 16:07:45 GMT -6
Put it into the weight room and an EZ cam
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 30, 2015 9:35:13 GMT -6
We are going with this. Varsity staff is going to handle practice. I'm grooming a young guy to call the JV O, how funny is it that I am calling someone else the young guy
I must be getting old
Overall it'll be much better and we will be much more competitive at the lower levels. Our JV team was loaded last season and was less than mediocre. Zero fundamentals were taught. They could not block or tackle.
I'll call it like I see it, I'm better because I understand focusing on Indy wins you way more games than running team for an hour and having a bunch of plays
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 24, 2015 15:32:44 GMT -6
i have fought with admin before for similar issue
they make exceptions for losers to go to Prom, but i can't let a kid play football if he is under a 2.0
that is not fair, supposed to be no extra curriculars if theyre ineligible
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 24, 2015 11:55:04 GMT -6
More rules is never a good thing You have to enforce them or you look like crap
Less rules the better
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 23, 2015 23:40:01 GMT -6
School handled it Talk to the boys about making better decisions Move on
Kids do dumb stuff, realistically none of us would have teams if we drug tested lol
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 23, 2015 19:57:54 GMT -6
good story lol
have to admit the team prayer thing always makes me uncomfortable as an educator i dont care one way or another if you're religious or not, but always feels weird when everyone circles up to pray, i always think man, good thing no one feels uncomfortable, complains to mom and dad about HAVING to pray with the team, and their parents go and sue or something
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 19, 2015 21:27:14 GMT -6
This phone call will be recorded for training purposes
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 17, 2015 15:57:07 GMT -6
we do one every year during spring ball
we tie it in to our spirit packs
$150 gets your spirit pack, shorts, 2 shirts, 2 pairs of custom socks, mouthpiece $200 they get a hat and a hoody thrown in
we buy the kid who raises the most a pair of cleats of his choice
one of our better fundraisers
honest advice, DO NOT PUSH KIDS TO GET PER LB DONATIONS
i know that is the idea behind it, but then you have to see the person twice... once to get their pledge amount, once to collect (after the liftathon)
we push our kids to tell their family, friends, whoever to donate flat donations... 5 bucks here, 20 bucks there whatever
they collect it on the spot, and we get 99% of our money collected the day of the liftathon rather than trying to get money collected week(s) after
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 16, 2015 20:35:19 GMT -6
depends on the time of year
spring ball... a lot, couldnt tell you an exact number, but they are so raw at that point in the year it seems you have a lot of new kids
so we do less drills, but more reps of those drills
as they get better at the drills, the number of reps of each drill decrease, and the number of drills/skills we work on increase
it is an inverse relationship
by the time we are rolling in season, i do typically 3 reps each way before going on to the next drill for the EDD stuff
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 15, 2015 9:12:15 GMT -6
I just go to clinics to drink beer and not attend any speakers. Not true. But some people do this. I'd estimate 25% of coaches go to clinics every year solely to get away from their wives If the old show cheaters, went to coaching clinics, they'd bust so many guys
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 13, 2015 22:21:37 GMT -6
nltdiegothis might not be super helpful, just my two cents on it I dont have on field, football related competition/toughness things other than maybe 1on1s I look at spring ball as the time to work on the basic skills we need to master for our core plays, and what our responsibility is on those core plays... used to worry about scheme, but now I care much more about the skills needed to block, rather than the blocking scheme itself I personally look at the idea of competing/toughness/heart as an S&C related thing I would personally keep the football focused on Indys, base O and D now in the weight room, and with conditioning work you can challenge their manhood tire flips, sledgehammers on tires, tire pulls, sled pushes, farmers walks kids freaking love relay races, you'll never see a fat kid run faster than a relay race I have even considered putting everyone in the gym with a projector and an insanity DVD (awesome workout that'll be tough for most of them) these are all things that are difficult, will challenge their manhood and perseverance some and are general things to improve their condition I hope you can implement some of these ideas before or after practice wasnt sure if you were looking for ideas like this? or more football specific things to mix in during the actual practice itself?
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 13, 2015 17:58:10 GMT -6
Regarding the no-contact law in CA: I had a conversation with the AD last Friday and his take is that the football community, including the CIF (showed me some CIF documents that apparently aren't published yet) are converging on the idea that the only thing that will constitute full contact will be full speed tackle to the ground. Everything up to that point, including thud, is not full-speed contact. I thought that was pretty strange. Then I go pick up the football mail and one of the items is a camp brochure saying that they were still going to have their camp because it was not going to be full contact, it was going to be thud only. And that was dated late February so this has been in work for a good time. What this means is that for all practical purposes we will never be in full contact mode, except for maybe some goal line times. It's now mid-April and we have yet to have any definitive clarification(s) from the CIF or section. At the CIF thing at UC Davis they specifically said thud isn't allowed Tackling to the ground doesn't cause concussions/brain issues, it's the contact
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 12, 2015 18:00:06 GMT -6
I would like some advice/tips for those of you who have had one staff coach both the varsity and JV levels
we have about 8 varsity coaches, a few JV... we will probably have about 40 on each level do you do same things together? go opposite and split staff in half?
just curious as to how others have managed to coach both varsity and JV at the same time
if it matters, we play JV games right before the varsity game on fridays, and players can't play at both levels in the same week
Thanks,
B Dud
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 12, 2015 10:18:36 GMT -6
This JUST in...my wife wakes up to a text message from one of her students. The girl tells my wife she is pregnant. Who's her boyfriend?...you guessed it, one of my players. WTF. As fantom stated earlier, I'm not sure there is a clear cut way to handle these situations. I'm not sure that I actually expected one, but some of the responses gave me a few good laughs. I think at the end of the day, I just need to let the player(s) know that I'm not going to get in their business, but I will be watching their behavior. If I feel it is becoming an issue, I'm going to bring them and their parent(s) in to discuss my concerns. Other than that, I'm not sure there is much else that can be done. Ultimately, kids are going to do what they want. My dad who coached for nearly 35 years once told me that sometimes there are things you just don't want to know about your players. In other words, some things just work themselves out. I appreciate the dialog. some baby daddy stories i have encountered last spring a good sized/athletic OL transferred in from another local school (over the hill different league) would have been my starting LT and possibly started on defense.. he was in my weight class and i got all excited because i had 4 returning starters on the OL coming back, he wouldve been the 5th piece and i was all set... a couple weeks in he tells me his gf is having a baby, and she is due in a month... he pretty much dropped out form then on to work one of our better 2016 players had a kid last season... he says he will still play this year (would start at LB and play a lot of FB on O) When i was a senior in HS, we had this HUGE freshman on the basketball team... he was about 6'6... i think he got all the way up to 6'9", fairly good player by the time he was done in HS... anyway he was pretty much the definition of thug life. I do not know his points or rebounds per game from his freshman year, but his off the court stats include: 1 child, 2 DUIs
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 11, 2015 22:56:21 GMT -6
I will say at my school there are 2 kinds of players who are able to pull off the gf thing while playing football at a high level
1. the miggity miggity miggity miggity mack daddy - will plow anything with a hole, puts no effort/thought/time into any of the girls because he doesnt want to be with any he just wants sex... not a problem
2. dating an athlete/cheerleader... typically these girls are busy after school with their own practice so the boys are not missing stuff (workouts) to go see their girl... our cheer team is pretty much year round so i dont have to worry about a player missing something to go spend time with his cheer gf, cuz she has practice too
the rest tend to date losers who actively try to drag them down
I will say a funny story where a gf actually helped us lol, 3 years ago we had a pretty good RB, utterly controlled by his gf, this girl spoke to him as if she were his mother... one day right as we are boarding the bus for an away game (we are 4-0, our opponent was 4-0, big game) they get into this HUGE fight in the parking lot... screaming at each other, cussing each other out the kid is visibly not in it in pre game warm ups... HC and I are talking, thinking we are screwed, he is all sad and going to play terrible
his best game of the year, 200 something yards, almost all just off his physical running because the rest of the team didnt play very well... he pretty much put the team on his back and was running people over/dragging them for yards all game. An hour before the game he is in the locker room asking me if he should even play.
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 11, 2015 21:04:31 GMT -6
Vajay has ruined more athletes than any drug or injury
I typically tell the kids that the girls in college are way better looking, and that if you're a D1 player you get lots of opportunities for 2 at the same time
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 11, 2015 0:05:43 GMT -6
will also add we now go over social media policy with the kids
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 10, 2015 13:38:49 GMT -6
mostly individuals, some small group work... all the while as little standing as possible, everyone getting a ton of reps the coach should appear as he did a few bumps of coke with charlie sheen just before practice and preferably he never stops shaking at any moment in practice
any team time is short and sweet... high tempo, plays should reflect the skills worked in indy and group up to that point in the practice. coaching needs to be done on the fly so you can get more reps done
in educational terms the lesson plan, practice, hw, and real teaching goes on with the whiteboard and indy time... team is not where you get better, it is essentially a "pop quiz" to see how well you can carry over the skills learned in Indy/group into a game like situation
an actual game would be the equivalent of a test/final exam
you really do not get better in team or games, you get better at practice, and the team time or game is the application of what you have/haven't learned
you don't learn algebra 2 by taking a test on algebra 2, it merely "tests" how well you have been learning from lessons/class/hw
if only our lower levels could understand this haha
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 10, 2015 13:25:00 GMT -6
CA has a new law in place... notice i said LAW, not a policy... actually went in through the state legislature, violating it opens up coaches to fines, potentially jail time
off season no full contact, no thud, nothing at game like speeds... any drill has to be under control with a pre decided winner of the drill
each section gets to pick their official start date, usually early August... from then on , you are allowed to do full contact for a max of 90 minutes, 2 days a week max this runs through the end of your season
in season it wont effect us, we never do close to 90 minutes of contact drills a day summer time it is a slight change, will mostly effect how i run my team camp, but we arent just crashing in to eachother all summer prior to this, for about the last decade or so, in our section all rules went away in the summer... you could have had 10 full contact practices a day if you wanted so for some coaches it might effect the way they do things
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 10, 2015 10:38:26 GMT -6
we have one in the spring and one in the fall
spring we go over basic rules, our spring ball/summer schedule touch on important dates -passing tourneys -car washes -team camp
player/parent expectations school/district policies(no smoking, drinking, steroids, etc.) -eligibility -fundraisers, and fundraisers, and fundraisers, also some fundraisers -opportunities to buy team gear/spirit pack (aka more fundraisers lol)
in the fall it is usually a bit shorter... give them a 2nd copy of the game schedule, explain practice times and when we will have study hall touch on expectations, rules, missed practice = missed playing time etc.
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 7, 2015 15:32:57 GMT -6
Guess I should have clarified that I was looking for feedback from those that do find knee pads useful and can speak to this idea from their experience with the utilization of knee pads!! FTTF sorry, realized after i posted i was less than helpful
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 7, 2015 12:24:31 GMT -6
My thoughts This season I want everyone one integrated girdles and shorts
Knee pads are basically useless We never go live In practice We stay up on all tackles and form work
We don't need knee pads Id rather them be comfortable and have more energy
Girdles shorts and shells every day is what I want for our every day practice dress code
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 30, 2015 13:56:49 GMT -6
it is the opossite here
everyone gets a letter for everything...
clubs and band get letters we GIVE JV LETTERS OUT, when i got here i was like WTF a small A for JV a larger one for Varsity... stupid
our school doesnt care, because they charge the kids $20 for it, so they make a tiny bit so the more letters the happier they are
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 27, 2015 15:45:21 GMT -6
School of 1800 or so 9-12
Usually between 30-40 kids on each level, freshman, JV, varsity
On varsity we currently have 8 coaches...
Myself: Assistant HC, OC, OL HC/DC/LBs/RB QB/pass game coord DB/TE/FB DL OLB/ST Wr/DB Wr
Might be adding a 9th (Rb coach) so HC can take a little off his plate
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 24, 2015 9:14:18 GMT -6
Of the people that used this style...what did you feel like were the tangible examples of the benefits from it and how did the kids feel about it? At first they were a little resistant they all thought they were gonna get hurt the night before the game but after the first couple they realized we really weren't hitting they also really loved the fact that Monday and Wed were shorts and shells days... i mean realistically if you work heads up style tackling, and stay off the legs all season long anyway... you never really NEED to wear leg pads/pants a lot of the boys would wear their combot/5 pad girdles under their shorts something about wearing shorts makes kids feel fresher and cooler Next season, if every kid would buy a combat 5 pad girdle , i wouldnt personally have a problem with wearing shorts all 4 practices a week biggest advantage was i felt it helped the focus of thursday practices... an actual football practice, not a j@ck off session where everyone is just going through the motions
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 22, 2015 13:25:07 GMT -6
yes we did it this year i liked it Coach can you give us a run down of what a normal week of practice looks like for you guys? ok so i want to explain that i stole this idea from both Chip Kelly and UCLA Heard mazzone mention they do something similar and the idea was that he didnt want to go 48 hours between turning up the intensity (i am huge on Indy time, especially with OL, and we run typically 10 minutes of team a day Mon-Wed) we are a school of about 1800 9-12th we usually have around 40 on the varsity team, mostly juniors and seniors, a couple sophomores everyone plays (or at least practices) both ways we typically practice both O and D on the same day, every day Monday - shells only: weights/condition, film, chalk anything getting added or new to game plan, practice was a quick indy time and a walk through of what was getting added or needed fixing tuesday - full gear, weights/condition, our heavy work day on O and D... lots of Indy or small group work... about 10 minutes or so at the end of team... quick whistle, never make a tackle wed - shells, weights/condition - still get some Indy work in, but will do more team stuff, drives up and down field on air, thursday - full gear, Indy, a little team, review Special teams,trick plays, special formations (wildcat for 5 minutes, running through each play on air) i usually dont do any team O against a Defense on thursday, our D likes a full scout O look but we use a very quick whistle so it isnt that we are banging and going all out thursdays, but i have found being fully geared up stops the screwing around that I have seen in helmets, kids think it is a day at the park, or free play in PE when we are in just helmets. we really spend more time on Indy and tackling drills than anything else... the team that blocks and tackles best wins... had our 1st playoff win in 30 years here this year... our blocking and tackling was significantly better than any of the other years I have been here
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 20, 2015 16:22:15 GMT -6
yes we did it this year i liked it
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